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Show MRS. HETTY GREEN IS DEAD. Was Known as Richest Woman in the World. New York. Mrs. Hetty Green, known as the world's wealthiest woman, wom-an, who was 80 years old, died here July 3. She had suffered three strokes of paralysis in the last two months and for several weeks had been practically prac-tically helpless. Hetty Green was the world's most remarkable mistress of finance. Wall street's estimates of Mrs. Green's fortune range from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000. Officials of the Chemical National bank in which Mrs. Green once made her. downtown headquarters, headquart-ers, declined to hazard a guess concerning con-cerning the size of her estate. The richest woman in America, she chose for a time to hang her little black cape and bonnet, often in the hall bedroom of some cheap boarding house, or in some remote and modest flat around New York. She was born on November 21, 1835, at New Bedford, Mass. |